¹⁷² Hesiod, Works and Days, i. 73-114 (Elton's translation [in substance. S.]).

¹⁷³ Hesiod, Works and Days, i.125-134 (Elton's translation [in substance. S.]).

¹⁷⁴ "mu=qo/n tina"

.

¹⁷⁵ para/deisoj.

¹⁷⁶ Penia, poverty; Porus, abundance.

¹⁷⁷ dia\ th\n au\th=j a0pori/an.

¹⁷⁸ e\n toi=j e0kei/nhj geneqli/oij.

¹⁷⁹ e0n toiau=th| tu/xh| kaqe/sthke.

¹⁸⁰ sklhro\j kai\ auxmhro/j.

¹⁸¹ e0ndei/a.

¹⁸² su/ntonoj.

¹⁸³ deino/j.

¹⁸⁴ kai\ fronh/sewj kai\ po/rimoj.

¹⁸⁵ deino\j go/hj.

¹⁸⁶ [Plato, Symposion, xxiii. p. 203. S.]

¹⁸⁷ Boherellus, quem Ruaeus sequitur, in notis; "Ante voces": ti/na tro/pon, videtur deesse: qauma/sontai, aut quid simile." - Lommatzsch.

¹⁸⁸ to\ lego/menon.

¹⁸⁹ eu0katafronh/twn.

¹⁹⁰ fusiologei= Mwu>\sh=j ta\ peri\ tou= a!qrw/pou fu/sewj.

¹⁹¹ Cf. 1 Cor. xv. 22 with Rom. v. 14.

¹⁹² ou0k e!sti kaq' h[j ou0 le/getai.

¹⁹³ pteror0r9uou/shj. This is a correction for pterofuou/lhj, the textual reading in the Benedictine and Spencer's edd.

¹⁹⁴ a0llo/koton.

¹⁹⁵ korw/nh.

¹⁹⁶ paraxara/ttontej kai\ r9a|diourgou=ntej.

¹⁹⁷ toi= duna/mei le/gesqai ta\ me/tra.

¹⁹⁸ [This question, which is little short of astounding, illustrates the marvellous reach and play of Origen's fancy at times. See note supra, p. 262. S.]

¹⁹⁹ paraxara/ttontej kai\ r9a|diourgou=ntej.

²⁰⁰ Cf. Matt. xxi. 43.

²⁰¹ e!cwron.

²⁰² Cf. Gen. iv. 8.

²⁰³ Cf. Gen. xxvii. 41.

²⁰⁴ a!gxista de\ toutoij pa=si sumpoliteu/omenon.

²⁰⁵ qeiothta.

²⁰⁶ e0r0r9wme/nwj.

²⁰⁷ Cf. Gen. xxx. 42 (LXX.). "The feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's" (Auth. Vers.).

²⁰⁸ Cf. Gen. xxx. 43.

²⁰⁹ Cf. 1 Cor. x. 11.

²¹⁰ par' oi[j ta\ poiki\la h!qh e0pi/shma geno/mena, tw=| logw\| tou= Qeou= politeu/etai, doqe/nta kth=sij kaloume/nw| 'Iakw/b: e0pi/shma is the term employed to denote the "spotted" cattle of Laban, and is here used by Origen in its figurative sense of "distinguished," thus playing on the double meaning of the word.

²¹¹ fre/ata.

²¹² la/kkouj.

²¹³ th\n e0nupa/rxousan gh=n kai\ a0rxh\n tw=n poti/mwn a0gaqw=n. Boherellus proposes: th\n e0nupa/rxousan phgh\n kai\ a0rxh\n tw=n poti/mwn u9da/twn.

²¹⁴ Cf. Prov. v. 15-17.

²¹⁵ Cf. Gen. xxvi. 15.

²¹⁶ nu\mfaj.

²¹⁷ Cf. Gal. iv. 21-24.

²¹⁸ ta\ a0pemfai/nonta.

²¹⁹ Gen. xix. 17.

²²⁰ oi9 e0pitugxa/nonte/j ge au0tw=n.

²²¹ ou0k eu0katafro/nhtoj au0toi=j.

²²² zw/puron.

²²³ boulh/mati.

²²⁴ e!xei de/ tina kai\ kaq' au0to\ a/pologi/an. [Our Edinburgh translator gives a misleading rendering here. Origen throughout this part of his argument is reasoning ad hominem, and has shown that Greek philosophy sustains this idea.]

²²⁵ Cf. Homer, Iliad, vi. 160.

²²⁶ o9si\aj e#neken.

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